Please chance me for Duke ED

gardenstategal
Sun, 01 Sep 2019 11:50:21 +0000

I agree with the assessment by @socaldad2002 in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of your application. I had the same reaction – very light on STEM – but you sound liken interesting person…
I think if can bring your score up, you might be closer to getting 50/50 odds.

I think your challenge, in some ways, is that your application will look much like one a development case who was strategic would craft to be sure they had what it took for the committee to okay it. In other words, no compelling reason to say no. But you don’t have the hook of being the child of a major donor (so no compelling reason to say yes.)

This isn’t a complete Hail Mary, but the odds aren’t overwhelmingly great.